Claiming they have a mandate, Trump’s people have said they are launching ‘a hostile takeover’ of the American government ‘on behalf of the American people.’ But as voting numbers continue to come in, Trump’s majority has fallen below 50% of voters, meaning that more voters chose someone else than chose Trump on November 5. These results are far from being in ‘mandate’ territory. - Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-20-2024?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1WoJknII9PfoloWNQbMx52_ZtaKbwjiM2zYG8vH_vd752zO02YprA-yWA_aem_5Y37Bp4eiQFsC2WscT-oJQ
Despite the USA spending years and vast sums of money ramming 'democracy' down every nations throat; willing or not - the US is not one. No, it is not a democracy at all.
Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by a significant margin but that foul piece of excrement, trump actually got the keys to the white house That is not democracy in action, is it?
The same thing applies to the UK, my homeland as there, numerous governments have been elected on a minority vote because of the utterly archaic electoral system.
